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January 29, 2025
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Adding photo links or images to a blueprint drawing

  • January 29, 2025
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We received pdf floor plans from clients for large buildings (think fire escape plans like you see on the walls of your typical office).  We go through buildings and perform site assessments.  Typically, while in the field, we would hand write observations (damaged ceiling tile or crack in the wall, etc...) on a large print out of the building drawing.   Ideally - we would like to access the drawing via Adobe on our laptop or Ipads - and, then add notations and text boxes with arrows directly on the drawing by zooming in on that room and adding a text box with the arrow pointing to that deficiency (the wall, floor, etc..)  and - this is the bigger need! - it would be amazing if we could take a photo while standing in that particular room and be able to drop a "button" or clickable link or something - so when the client received this document, they would be able to zoom in and out of the floor plan's various rooms and click something to see an image of what we are referencing in our text box.   Hope this makes sense!!  We have Adobe Pro if this matters.  Example of what I do now... also, it would be great to add shading polygons, lines, etc... to these drawings. But, the edit dropdown for our shared docs does not have all the annotation tools that we use??

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Legend
March 3, 2025

Hi, 

 

Sorry for the delayed response and thank you for reaching out with your question. 

I don't think we have a way to achieve this. However, what you can try is to take pictures, add all of those as pages, or insert them as pages to the existing PDF(Floor plan) and link them to the floor plan. 
Here is the info, on how to create links: https://adobe.ly/3XoZbV9 it is not an easy solution but this is the nearest possible workaround. 

 

Let us know if you have questions

 


~Tariq